From: Thomas Zimmermann
Sent: 20 November 2020 10:14
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Is there any way to bisect through the parts of the drm merge patch into v5.10-rc1 ?
That ought to be quicker (and less error prone) than the bisect builds I was doing.
Note that the stack 'splat' is due to a later change. It is separate from the broken pixel alignment.
I actually saw the vga text go 'funny' while the boot was outputting all the [OK] messages (from systemd?) before the graphic login stole tty1 (bloody stupid to use tty1).
I don't need to use the failing system today, I'll have another go at isolating the failure.
You can use drm-tip for testing, where many of the DRM patches go through.
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-tip/
It's fairly up-to-date.
Any idea of tags either side of the 5.10 merge?
I have two systems with AST chips and neither shows any of the symptoms you describe; nor do we have such reports about drivers that use a similar stack (hibmc, bochs). Could you provide the output of
dmesg | grep drm
[ 2.112303] fb0: switching to astdrmfb from EFI VGA [ 2.120222] ast 0000:02:00.0: [drm] Using P2A bridge for configuration [ 2.120233] ast 0000:02:00.0: [drm] AST 2400 detected [ 2.120247] ast 0000:02:00.0: [drm] Analog VGA only [ 2.120257] ast 0000:02:00.0: [drm] dram MCLK=408 Mhz type=1 bus_width=16 [ 2.121121] [drm] Initialized ast 0.1.0 20120228 for 0000:02:00.0 on minor 0 [ 2.125838] fbcon: astdrmfb (fb0) is primary device [ 2.152179] ast 0000:02:00.0: [drm] fb0: astdrmfb frame buffer device [ 6.061034] systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in Load Kernel Module drm being skipped.
The output is the same for both good and bad kernels.
David
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